The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1887-06-08
GENERAL NEWS,

ed the first anniversary of their marriage,
June ..
Governor Sawyer of New Hampshire
was nangurated ON Thursday
Five new cases of yellow fever are re-
ported at Key West Florida.
Suits aggregating SIol 300 have been
brought against the Boston Providence
railroad on account of the Busscy bridge
accident.
Mayor Hewitt has refused permission
to New York hotels to sell liquor on Sun
day.
An earthquake swept over northern
California and western Nevada, Saturday
afternoon.
District Assembly 126, X. of L.. are
sending out a circular to local secretaries
of other assemblies, charging Master
Workman Powderly and the Gen
eral Executive Board with criminal in
competency.
In Rhode Island. last week the Repuh-
lican Senate passed bill to submit to the
people the question of calling a constitu-
tional convention, while the Democratic
House passed one to call the convention
without submitting it to a vote Of the
people
George Van Dyke, the lumber king of
New England, is coming down the Con
necticut river with more than ninety mil
lions of spruce lumber, Il much larger
quantity than he or any other person has
ever driven down in one season. 70 per-
form the labor in getting this immense
amount of lumber down, requires the ser
vices of over six hundred hardy men and
eighty horses, at an expense of more than
two thousand dollars per diem.
Reports from Choctaw Nation are to
the effect that the trouble between the
bloods and the half breeds is growing in
intensity and has in many cases tcrmna-
ted in boodshcd.
The Governor of the Nation and the
local authorities are doing all in their
power to preserve peace and protect
lives and property. The rumorS of muir
ders and deeds of lawlcssncss are many,
while many families continue to leave the
country.
In his inaugural Gov. Sawyer of New
Hampshire, recommended l0-hour law,
weekly payment law, a State board of
arbitration, and a modification of the
trustee law so that wages may be exempt
from attachment, constitutional prohibit
ton and free text books in public scools.
Prof. Sumner of Yale College, has been
appointed a member of the Board of Visi-
tors to the Naval Academy. Hon. Chaun-
cey NJ. Depew of New York, thinks the
labor, the liquor and tariff questions will
assume large proportions in the next
Presidential campaign1
The fourth biennial report of the Blu
reau of Labor Statistics of Illinois states
that there are ga labor organizations in
that State with a total of ia, 3Gj mem
bers. Of these the American born con-
stltute thirty-two per cent OF all the
members of organizations, ifty-tivc per
cent work ten hours, and fifteen per cent.
longer time. Only about one fifth of
all workmcn are fully employed through
ont the year, while one-ihird work only
half time or less.
Hon. Andrew d. White of New York,
eX-Minister to Germany. thinks the time
has come when the republican party
should send its strongest and ablc,t men
into the South, to present to the Southern
people the advantages of protective tar
i'll. Charles Dudley Warner, who has
been on trip through the South SAYS
that he finds all the people down there in
terested in this question As a passing
Item IN this connection. il may be men
toned that Congressman Kelly of Penn
sylvania, the veteran protectionSt, has
been invited to speak at Macon, Ga by
leading democrats.
Ex-Nice President William A. Wheeler
died at his home in Malone Saturday
morning.
y ilayerhill, Mass. journal saws:
1t now looks as though long labor con-
test must cnsuc here. The result of the
meeting of the Manufacturers ASSocia-
Loo,
full settlement. The manufacturers are
determined to have the privilege of max
ing price list with the employees, taking
the ground that both sides would be safe,
as such price list would by the terms of
the agreement meet the approval of the
Manufacturers Association. In the re-
lection of this proposition all chances for
arranging mutually a satisfactory price
list vanishes. Ii is feared a number OF
the manufacturers will leave the city.
Flattering offers have been made to the
firms here by committees from Great
Falls, N. II. and elsewhere. The coming
troubles will probably influence them to
accept more free shops in the near future
The most disastrous result feared is the
drawing away of trade.
The President is reported as contradict
ing the rumor that he proposes to make
trip to the Pacific coast this summer
The quarrel between the General Ex-
ecutive Board of the knights of Labor
and New York members of the order is
deepening.
AT a meeting of Plymouth Church Fri
day night Mr.. Sherman. speaking on the
subject of calling new preacher, urged
the church not to 20 back to Calvinism,
but to employ pastor who should be in
accord with Mr.. Beecher's advanced ideas.